Hume's Argument Against Survival of Death
(P 309ab)

Premise 1: If two objects are so closely connected that all noticeble changes in one are attended with proportionate changes in the other, then when one totally dissolves, the other totally dissolves.

Premise 2: Body and mind are so closely connected that all noticeble changes in one are attended with proportionate changes in the other.

Conclusion: When the body totally dissolves, the mind totally dissolves.


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Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 18 November 2002